Hundreds are participating in a Palestine rally on the University of Texas campus. Authorities have reportedly had several confrontations and made multiple arrests.
Hundreds of students walked out of class at the University of Texas at Austin today to rally for Palestine and attempt to occupy the South Lawn on campus.The students are now gathering on the South Lawn and have been setting up tents while chanting "Free Free Palestine" and other slogans, including ones aimed at the Israeli Defense Forces and even Austin police.Hundreds of Texas state troopers responded to the scene alongside officers from the University of Texas police department.
The rally was organized by the Palestine Solidarity Committee to follow "in the footsteps of our comrades at Columbia SJP, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Yale, and countless others across the nation." according to a post on social media about the rally.The UT rally comes just after President Joe Biden signed a bill granting more than $26 billion in aid for Israel with humanitarian relief for the citizens of Gaza.
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